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Scoreboard v1.x

Posted on 03 February 2012 - 14:57

State:

Finished

Period:

August 2008 to August 2010

This program evolved from a problem we (Sportiek Spins) were experiencing during the games. The scoreboard was positioned is such a way that it was visible for the teams but not for the spectators. To fix this problem I created a scoreboard that we projected on the wall so everyone could see it. Since I didn't have any programming experience I wrote the program in Visual Basic, since that seemed to be the easiest way to create a program with a GUI.

This scoreboard was an improvement in several ways:

Since the score, time and current period are visible, people don't have to bother the game officials to ask.

The penalty times were visible, so the teams could see how long power play/penalty killing time they had left.

We didn't have to calculate the end time of the penalties anymore, because the scoreboard showed the time the penalty has left.

A while later, we started playing music during the important games, we had to ensure the music stopped once the time started and vice versa. To do this I integrated the program with an ITunes plugin. This gave us the opportunity to just run a playlist and once the time started/stopped the volume was set to 0/100 accordingly.